If you weren’t around for the premiere of Late Night with David Letterman in 1982, then chances are you’re not aware how much he — and the team of writers, producers and comic talent that put on the show five nights a week — changed the face of late-night TV. Dave challenged and, in some cases, blew up the conventions of the talk-show genre and rewrote the playbook that Conan O’Brien, Craig Ferguson and the Jimmys — Kimmel and Fallon — are using today.
Now on CBS, Letterman is still going strong, and, in 1991, his success begat Worldwide Pants Inc, which has produced the television series Everybody Loves Raymond and Ed. The company’s CEO Rob Burnett began as an intern on Late Night in 1985 and rose to become executive producer of the current CBS incarnation of Letterman’s show as well as the co-creator, with Jon Beckerman, of Ed and Knights of Prosperity.
Although Worldwide Pants made its first foray into film production with the 2005 indie feature Strangers with Candy, Burnett has expanded the company’s presence in the medium with two projects that also involve him personally. In September, he made his directorial debut with We Made This Movie, a funny, unsentimental coming-of-age comedy that he co-wrote with Beckerman. Worldwide Pants is a producer of that film as well as Burnett’s next picture, which was announced in mid-October: an adaptation of Jonathan Evison’s novel, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving.
Movieline spoke to Burnett about his move into film, which, as you might expect from someone who cut his show-business teeth on Dave’s groundbreaking NBC show, has been anything but conventional. Working with a miniscule budget and determined to remain true to the film’s do-it-yourself plot, Burnett and Beckerman worked with…
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The first disappointment of the day for me was when I read story after story about how a delicious chicken sandwich is the unofficial anti-gay rights symbol. The second disappointment of the day came when I got hungry for a chicken sandwich and realized that Popeye’s ass doesn’t deliver to my area. The third disappointment of the day came when I was looking for pictures on a photo agency website and thought that a set of tiny thumbnails were pictures of this glamorous flower:
Then I clicked on a thumbnail and found out it was just Lindsay Lohan’s busted ass at Make-Up Forever in L.A. There needs to be a store called Sit Down Forever and bitch needs to go there instead. Damn you LiLo for not being Jose Eber in easy access shorty shorts.
YouTube star and the prettiest belle in Alabama, Antoine Dodson, might look like a felt seahorse puppet made by The Jim Henson Company, but he doesn’t agree with his fellow Muppets on boycotting Chick-fil-A for their anti-gay marriage ways. While Miss Piggy can’t with Chick-fil-A, Antoine Dodson can, will and is. Finally, the question that has been floating in your head since this Chick-fil-A shit started, “What would Antoine Dodson say?” has finally been answered. One less thing to keep your head.
After some of his fans asked for his thoughts on Chick-fil-A, openly gay ‘Toine said on a YouTube video uploaded yesterday that he doesn’t care if they have given millions of dollars to anti-gay rights organizations. ‘Toine is going to eat that sandwich. ‘Toine doesn’t care if people say that every bite into a Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich is a bite for marriage inequality. ‘Toine is STILL going to eat that sandwich. ‘Toine doesn’t care if some say Chick-fil-A sandwiches are just breaded, hormone-pumped hate between two gay-hating buns, he’s still going to eat! ‘Toine is going to flick his micro braids and keep eating while not giving one shit what you think:
“I have uncles and aunties as well who does not approve of gay marriages and stuff like that, but they respect me. I don’t care about one person’s opinion or how they feel — that’s fine. Chick-fil-A makes good meals, and I eat there.
If I want to have a Chick-fil-A sandwich, guess what? I’m gonna have
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Full Story »Obviously, the chicken came first. – Sweetas
Runners-up:
Octomom’s self pleasuring film was a bitter disappointment. – crankenstein
John Doe #2 thought he had conquered his fears and was ready to return to work…until the therapy chicken arched up and opened its gizzards. – turnelbup
Once the money ran out, Crystal Harris knew JUST what to do to get Hugh Hefner back. – Skatesofgold
(Thanks, Stacy)
Correction: It’s not totally what I expected. That headline is a liar. I expected to see a gigantic tub (made of Cheetos powder and bacon glue) full of Fresca and buttered popcorn-flavored Jelly Bellies in there. Maybe she’s saving that for the live shows.
Seen here looking like a scared kindergarten on picture day who was told to keep her hands to herself, Brit Brit started her first day as judge on The X-Factor in Austin, TX today. Before the Louisiana trailer park blossom judges bitches who have more natural singing talent than she does, she has to fill her belly bag with fried chicken, Doritos and Diet Coke stew. Something called Look Magazine (via Entertainmentwise) says these are Brit Brit’s dressing room demands:
34 Herve Leger bandage dresses
12 Snickers bars
6 cases of Diet Coke
10 bags of Doritos
12 vases of magnolias
10 pieces of fried chicken
4 pints of tater salad
1 manicurist, 1 facialist and 1 massage therapist
The manicurist is there to scrub the Doritos smemga out of her nail gutters. The facialist is there pick the pieces of fried chicken dingles off of her cheeks. And the massage therapist is there to knead out the doody knot that’s in her ass from eating all that shit.
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Ever since Cannes started, I know that you have refused to acknowledge its existence until the festival’s official mascot and flaming torch of chicken cutlets charisma opened up the ceremony by lighting up the red carpet. Well, now that Phoebe Price is there flexing the life out of her hormone-free chicken cutlets cheeks for the international media, we can say that Cannes has officially begun.
Almost every time I post pictures of PP delivering serious poses at Cannes, some not-knowing bitch has to email me and ask, “Why is she there?” BLASPHEMY! That’s like asking, “Why does it feel good when I touch my feel good place?” or “Why am I most happiest when I stick my tongue in a tub of Duncan Hines frosting?” The answer is obvious. If there was no PP, there would be no Cannes. If there was no Cannes, there would be no PP. The two go together like a horse and marriage, or whatever the lyrics to the Married with Children theme song are. Oh, and PP’s also there every year, because France outsources all their seat filling duties to America.
And if you needed more proof that PP is so delicately special that she can naturally spin silk out of her precious oyster, here you go.
What if kamikaze NYT op-edder Greg Smith were a chicken from the Henson Workshop? What else? “My proudest moments in life — laying a plastic egg in Johannesberg, my LGTB teen awareness work with Bert, becoming Gonzo’s 539th domestic partner — have all come through hard work, with no shortcuts. With its cheap efforts to turn Gen X parents misty with sentimentality, the Muppets just doesn’t feel right to me anymore. I’m no Chicken Little — if things don’t change soon, the sky will indeed be falling.” [The Awl]
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Guess the ho who has decorated her parbaked breadstick legs with socks made out of vomit and boots made of pure fugness? – Hollywood Tuna
Two hobos go looking for a lost cat – Lainey Gossip
I think what Our Lady of Cunts is trying to say is that Brit Brit’s singing voice sounds like a toilet flushing – The Superficial
After looking at this picture of Terry Richardson and Lady CaCa, I’m pretty sure scabies are living on my eyelashes now – (site NSFW) Drunken Stepfather
M.I.A.’s video > Madge’s Old Navy commercial of a video – Towleroad
Stacy Keibler will get an empty cardboard box for her belongings and a signed pink slip any day now – Celebitchy
Contrary to popular belief, Ashley Greene can walk and hold a water bottle at the same time – Popoholic
Harry Potter and the Half-Bloody Mary – ICYDK
Posh’s A++ eyebrow situation on ID Magazine – Popsugar
Man nipples galore – The Berry
Let’s just assume that Michael Cera is either getting into character for a Welcome Back Kotter remake or he really just wants little children to run from him since he looks like PedoBear’s sidekick – Celebslam
Joe Man Jello manages to look hot despite the fact that
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Somebody had to give the videobomb of the night and even though I was secretly hoping it would be an actual lit bomb behind Madge as she licked her own ego during her ten-year-long acceptance speech, it was Tina Fey! While who ever was on stage was throwing out the names of the nominees for Best Actress in a TV Comedy, Amy Poehler thought the camera lens and her were having a special intimate moment together, but then Tina snuck in like a chrishansenhaveaseat.gif. Tina is seriously becoming a seasoned bomber, because this is her second time stealing a ho’s shine at an awards show.
So if your ass is ever sitting in a $30,000 borrowed gown at an awards show and you hear the sounds of the Jaws theme behind you, it’s Tina Fey stealing your shot! Or it’s Phoebe Price since the secret ingredient in her chicken cutlets are magnets that drag her toward the camera. Wait. Are we sure this isn’t actually Chicken Cutlets in a Tina Fey mask?
